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On the morning of 20 July 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a building construction site in the central business district of Auckland. The shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, killed two work colleagues with a shotgun, wounded seven other people, including a police officer, and then killed himself.A separate, unrelated, fatal shooting also took place in the Auckland CBD, on the same street, two weeks later on 3 August 2023.

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2023 Auckland shooting
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